It was sunny this morning, but cold. We had booked three nights at a Ceduna caravan park, so resumed driving in a north westerly direction along the Flinders Hwy. Our first opportunity for coffee was at Streaky Bay. We sat in the sun outside Bay Funktion while Blue enjoyed sips of coffee.
As we drove out of Streaky Bay I spotted this cluster of striking red plants.
Before going to our caravan park we drove to the Ceduna truck wash to clean the outside of our van. Our main focus was the windows which I will treat with special acrylic cleaner over the next couple of days.
We had to back onto a concrete slab with little wriggle room, but it is conveniently close to the amenities and swimming pool, not that we are likely to have a dip. We washed all of our upholstery covers and cleaned the rooftop fan. Jobs like this are easier to do when we are staying in a caravan park for a couple of days.
Ceduna is the location of the South Australian quarantine check point, even though it is nearly 500kms from the border with Western Australia. This town is large enough to attract and retain quarantine officers, rather than have staff posted to remote areas with few facilities.
There is a large truck stop on the western edge of Ceduna, and across the road is the Oyster Barn. We drove there to buy our dinner – a seafood basket which was large enough for us to share and still give the critters tasty morsels. Behind the Barn there is low lying land, and the foreshore is behind sand dunes. The rocky shore is so different to Gold Coast beaches.
Blue is not allowed on the small areas of grass within our caravan park, so I carried him to the grass on the foreshore near the jetty. Several of the jetty support poles have rusted through and are broken, but it is still being used and is featured in many sunset photos.
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